Happy New Year, People...

It's a tradition, don't'cha know.

Mouse and I play a game or two of Scrabble with Mouse's mother on New Year's Eve.

Tonight we did so again.

Now that Ursa Minor is getting older, he gets to spend some time bringing himself into the tradition. Tonight, before he went to bed, we played a couple rounds of Apples to Apples, a game he got as a Christmas Present.

It's a fun game. We played a few rounds with just the three of us on the day after Christmas, and now that we played it again on New Year's Eve, I think that it's a much better game with more players.

I h'ain't got much to say about the pre-NY Evening except that I really like the tradition that we've started by spending the Eve with Mouse's mom playing Scrabble and other games.

It's special to spend set-aside time with family. And Mouse's ma is a treasure.